Child&#39;s one-piece bifurcated winter garment



J. WEINGARTEN CHILD'S ONE-PIECE BIFURCATED WINTER GARMENT Filed March 31 1950 May 20, 1952 2 SHEETS-SHEET l l I I M y 1952 J. WEINGARTEN CHILD'S ONE-PIECE BIFURCATED WINTER GARMENT 2 SHEETS-SHEET 2 Filed March 51, 1950 INVENTOR. Ja -Pa #ZWYGAFTf/V BY M ATTORNEY Patented May 2%, 1952 OFFICE CHILDS ONE-PIECE BIFURCATED WINTER GARMENT Joseph Weingarten, Bronx, N. Y.

Application March 31, 1950, Serial No. 153,179

1 Claim.

This invention relates to an improved childs one-piece bifurcated winter garment.

An object of the invention is to provide a onepiece garment, particularly of the snow suit type, constructed in a novel manner to present the appearance of a two-piece garment including a coat, and which has provision for self-adjustment whereby to fit a variety of children more snugly or to fit the same child when it has different undergarments and sweaters.

Another object is to provide a one-piece garment of the type indicated that gives improved protection against snow, sleet, rain, and the elements in general, and which is easily put on and removed at will.

A further object is to provide such a garment, in which slide fasteners for the closures thereof are disposed in an arrangement by which the pull tabs are effectively shielded against fouling by ice, packed snow or dirt, and other foreign matter, thus greatly facilitating removal of the garment.

Other objects will be apparent from the following description in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, which illustrate examples of the invention without defining its limits. In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a front view of the garment as it appears when closed;

Figure 2 isa rear view of the garment;

Figure 3 is a front view of the garment partly opened;

Figure 4 is a front view of the garment when fully opened for putting it on and removing it from a wearer; and

Figures 5-8 are views similar to Figures 1-4, respectively, but illustrating a modified form of the garment.

In the embodiments of the invention herein disclosed, the garment basically comprises a lower section and upper section integral therewith and constructed of any suitable fabric or other material.

In the form of garment shown in Figures 1-4, the lower section includes leg members which consist of rear pieces l and front pieces H united along conventional inner seams to the crotch l2. From the crotch to the waist portion the rear pieces it are united by a center seam l3, and above the waist portion the rear pieces are continued upwardly in a single back memher it. Suitable sleeve members I may be combined with the back along seams IE, or inf-any.- other suitable manner, and may be provided? with elastic cuffs [7. Similar cuffs I3 may'jalso 2 be provided for the legs of the garment. At the waist line the back [4 is shirred and is provided with an elastic band l9, which band is continued part way around the front portion of the garment as shown in Figure l.

The front pieces H are continued upwardly from the crotch as integral members united by a center seam 2| and together constitute a tongue which comprises a foldable extension of the leg members at the front of the garment. The front includes cooperating coat members 22 connected with the back along side seams 23 and with the sleeve members along seams 24. These coat members 22 are so embodied in the garment as to have their lower edges relatively free and loose below the waist, in the form of flared depending apron flaps 25 which provide front continuations of a similar flared apron 26 attached to the back of the garment. The coat members are dimensioned to extend over and cover the tongue 20-20 when th latter is in operative position, and are provided at their meeting edges with slide fastener runners 21 cooperatively engaged with the usual pull tab 28 to provide a center closure line extending into the neck of the garment. When the coat members are fastened, as in Figure 1, a fastener flap 29 secured to one coat member at the neck portion may be buttoned over a button 30 on the other coat memher to relieve separating strain on the slide fastener and to overlie and shield the pull tab 28.

The upper ends of the members 2020 which constitute the tongue are reinforced by an inner piece 3|, and are. provided with snap fastener studs 32 for engagement with cooperating sockets 33 carried by elastic straps 34 that are suitably secured to the upper portion of the garment to depend from the shoulders thereof, as shown in the drawings. At least two sockets are spaced longitudinally on each strap to enable adjustment of the fastening to accommodate the garment to a variety of children, as will be readily understood. This measure of adjustability is enhanced and amplified by the elastic straps 34 which make the garment self-adjustable in that it readily conforms to the increase or decrease in bulk incident to the use of different undergarments or sweaters on the same child.

Donning and doffing of the garment is facilitated by the employment of slide fasteners at the sides. The runners 35 of these fasteners cooperate with conventional pull-tab Slides 36 to provide closures which unite the'back and front pieces 16 and i I, respectively, of the leg members in the manner of outside seams. The runners 3 extend from the leg cuffs l8 upwardly to the waist portion so that, when the fasteners are closed as in Figure 3, the pull tabs 36 are disposed substantially at the waistline for complete coverage by the apron flaps 25 when the coat members garment. When the garment is in use the hood and the flared apron at the waist provide a full measure of protection against the elements, and the double thickness of material. at the waist incident to the presence of the apron and flaps insures greater warmth and increased resistance to wetting by rain or melting snow.

The modified form of garment shown in Fig-- ures 5-8 differs from the preceding form principally in the arrangement of the tongue at the front, and the employment of a turndown collar 33' in lieu of the hood at the neck. In the modified form, the front and rear leg pieces are united by seams at their outer sides 3-9 instead of slide fasteners, and the tongue portions '2"il-'2-il are adapted for connection at their meeting edges by a center line slide fastener 49 which extends from the neck of the garment downwardly into one leg member to a point adjacent thecuff In all other respects the two forms are identical, and the same reference characters are used to designate like'parts in the several views.

Another important feature of the invention is the disposition or all slide fasteners so that they close upwardlyfrom their lower ends. Not only are their pull tabs thus shielded by covering portions of the garment, as previously pointed out, but also the slides are relieved of separating strain at their upper ends. When slide fastener pull tabs are exposed, as usually is the case in childrens garments, they are easily susceptible to becoming loosened during play, so that a childs vigorous turning and twisting imposes a separating strain on the fastener, whereupon it comes apart.

It is to be noted that the present invention provides a snug-fitting one-piece snow suit which is especially adapted for use for children in wintertime and especially useful in dressing children to protect them in snow storms. The novel snug-fitting one p'iece snow suit is an improvement of my prior U. S. Patent No. 2,408,537 of October 1, 1946.

Although the present invention has been described in conjunction with preferred embodiments, it is to be understood that modifications and variations may be resorted to without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention, as those skilled in the art will readily understand. Such variations and modifications are considered to be within the purview and scope of the claim.

'I claim:

A child's one-piece garment comprising, in its entirety, a lower leg section, an upper section integral therewith at the back only and having a waist portion, a neck portion, and front coat members extending from the side portions of the upper section to a central line of closure running from the neck portion to a point below the waist portion, the coat members below the waist portion being flared and entirely free of any connection to said lower leg section, the front of said lower leg section being foldable upwardly over the upper body and chest of a wearer and constituting a tongue having substantially the full width of the back of said upper section, said tongue being divided into two separable portions by a central line of closure extending from the top edge of the tongue to the garment crotch and thence along the inner side of one leg to substantially the leg bottom, a slide fastener for said tongue and leg line of closure, a pair of elastic straps depending from said upper section and secured thereto at their upper ends, fastener means on the lower free end of each strap, fastener means at the top of each tongue portion cooperatively engageable with the adjacent fastener means on said elastic straps for 'detac-hably securing the tongue in upright service position, and means for de'tachab'ly connecting the coat members with each other along their line of closure to overlie said tongue.

JOSEPH WEINGARTEN.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the iile of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 2,099,620 Pleiter et al Nov. 16, 1937 2,408,537 Weingarten Oct. 1, 1946 2,431,811 Lang Dec. 2, 1947 2,483,344 Kessner Sept. 27, 1949 2,502,296 Werb'er Mar. '28, I950 

